The Rise of Illiberalism and other important contemporary questions
Caleb Maupin
EDITED BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
Dispatch dateline: Feb 9, 2021
An informal chat with Caleb Maupin as your guide to the multitude of news, lies, distortions, rumors, idiocies, hypocrisies, and ideologies that shape our world.
Peasant revolt of 1381 (Wat Tyler's rebellion). England, like all nations in the medieval period, was shaken periodically by uprisings by the exploited underclass. Such rebellions could not move society to a higher stage (as finally happened when the capitalist mode of production entered history) and simply ended up in vast repression and/or superficial reforms designed to pacify the insurgents.
revolutions, and their eventual ideological degeneration as capitalism itself became dialectically obsolete and an obstacle to human progress.
HIGHLIGHTS: From liberalism to illiberalism. Humans are naturally collectivists when it comes to any real need or crisis. Atomized individuals living the notion the individual is above all can't function effectively in a healty society in which only the colelctive effort will assure the maximum well-being of the majority. That's why in wars, or health catastrophes, such as a plague or pandemic, societies in which individuals collaborate and integrate with their governments fare much better than in societies where the dog-eat-dog, "You're on your own, buddy!" philosophy prevails. If nothing else, the Covid-19 pandemic has shown the scandalous —some could call it criminal—inadequacy of the American neoliberal way of governance.
Feb 9, 2021
Bonus Features
Other important topics discussed and explained. The road to socialism and eventually communism is full of hurdles, myths, distortions and lies usually created deliberately by the capitalist propagandists to deter people from considering serious social change. These videos help to dispel much of this manufactured confusion.
Workers Cooperatives & Confusion about Socialism, Communism
Electric Car Communism - China challenges big oil monopolists
Oct. 4, 2017
Words do not define reality, Marxism is a tool not a religion
Caleb Maupin has worked as a journalist and political analyst for the last five years. He has reported from across the United States, as well as from Iran, the Gulf of Aden and Venezuela. He has been a featured speaker at many Universities, and at international conferences held in Tehran, Quito, and Brasilia. His writings have been translated and published in many languages including Farsi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is originally from Ohio. As a reporter with RT.com, Maupin's focus has been the United States. He has had many intense interactions with US State Department spokespeople including John Kirby, Mark Toner, and Heather Nauert confronting them about diverse issues like Syria, Russia, and the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons. Maupin was the primary US correspondent for RT’s international broadcasts during the 2016 Presidential elections. He reported from both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and also directly from the riots in Oakland, California, during the aftermath of the vote. Rev. 11.11.20
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